Ah, namespace at template declaration. That worked, thanks much

-----Original Message-----
From: Oleg Tkachenko [mailto:oleg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 5:21 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Namespace Problem

Bommineni, Venkateshwar wrote:

> Bruce/Oleg- I tried in that way. But if I have several sibling
> elements to <Member> then for each and every one I have to include
xmlns.

Nope :

<xsl:template match="People" xmlns="htp://www.foo.com/namespace/v1">
         <xsl:for-each select="Person">
             <Member>
                 <xsl:value-of
select="concat(substring(LName,1,1),'.',FName)"/>
             </Member>
         </xsl:for-each>
     </xsl:template>

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